Feature request: commands to add/remove dependencies from managed packages

Without some way of doing this built in to Lerna itself, usage of module hoisting alongside Yarn becomes impractical when adding or removing dependencies to packages.

• Yarn wants to download all the dependencies it’s missing, and is ignorant of hoisted ones. So you suffer the wait of re-downloading your packages whenever running yarn add directly within a module. Cleaning up this duplication also eats time.
• Adding the dependency manually is also an option, but this requires re-running lerna and that takes far longer than a normal module install.

lerna add [--dev] and lerna remove commands which accept the target package as well as dependency would provide a smooth means of dealing with these problems.

Great package and desperately needed in the node ecosystem, keep up the great work!

[shrugs]

Workaround for now:

lerna exec -- yarn remove my-package

[evocateur]

Still remains to be implemented.

On Mar 23, 2018, at 23:12, sachnk [e-mail] wrote:

Hi –

Thanks for the great work. I’m currently using lerna add with no problems. Any recommended ways to achieve the corresponding lerna remove functionality?

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